Anand Gandhi
@Memewala
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Creator | Ship of Theseus, Tumbbad, An Insignificant Man, Shasn, ElseVR, OK Computer! Founder, Department of Lore, @MemesysLab . I produce cinema + games
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AZADI is here! The sequel game to our very loved
@shasnthegame
launches on Kickstarter this Tuesday (7th Sept '21).
#WhatWillFreedomCost
#ShasnAzadi
#BoardGames
#PoliticalStrategyGames
#Revolution
#Kickstarter
@zainmemon_
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Kantara is nothing like Tumbbad. My idea behind Tumbbad was to use the horror as an allegory of toxic masculinity and parochialism.
Kantara is a celebration of these.
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I started working on an existential risk script with a focus on pandemics in 2015. After five years of intensive research and scripting, sharing our first concept art as we begin the casting process.
#Emergence
#7YearsOfShipOfTheseus
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@vinod_sharma
@smyltr
No, fellow human. Raised by these wonderful women in profound love and self assurance. Raised on the non-violence of Jaina thought, intellectual rigour of Vedic and Vedantic wisdom, compassionate synthesis of the Buddha, critical thinking of Kabir... What happened to you, human?
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My dear friend. You made the future comprehensible and the past malleable. My self expanded with you. I felt understood by you. I wish I had said this to you more often. I needed you.
#SushantSinghRajput
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Want to stay intellectually fit?
Bench five papers a day.
Consume healthy art.
Spar with friends, skilled in wit. Sharpen your edge as you do.
Equip the cognitive gym with the latest state-of-the-art tools of facts, frameworks, and metaphors.
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7 years ago I initiated a conversation with the world that changed my life. My first feature film was an invitation to all to join me on my quest for meaning. I am so grateful that so many you came along.
#7YearsofShipofTheseus
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@kunalb11
The potential cost of conflict far outweighs the potential cost of positive engagements. Evolutionarily speaking, if bio smoke alarms (pain, anxiety, fear) can save our lives even one in the ten times they go off, the cost of the other nine false alarms is worth bearing.
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Just experienced
@KaathalTheCore
and was in tears for the last 20 minutes. Its piercing civility moved me deeply. A standing ovation to Jeo Baby & team for creating this lush, sensitive gem that peers into the core of being human: vulnerability, empathy, love, regret, and decency
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You may be compassionate and charitable, but end up working for an institution that writes off the death of thousands as collateral damage. So be empathetic, but even more importantly, work towards building empathetic systems.
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"The only film of its kind ever made in this country" - the wonderful
@ravishndtv
on
@aimthemovie
#AnInsignificantMan
#FilmDemocracy
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Jealousy is a warning software that evolved in times of mating partner scarcity to alarm against potential partner loss. Now there are seven billion of us.
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Al generated storyboard.
@zainmemon_
and I started working on Emergence in 2015 and came close to making it in 2019. The event the film speculated became real and might have been the very reason for the film to not happen.
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Head to the Azad Nagar metro station for a VirtualReality experience with
@elseVRtv
Anand Gandhi's Memesys Cultural Labs installs Virtual Reality booths at Metro Stations.
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I hope our humour gets sharper, our dissent more rigorous, our satire more offensive, and till we arrive there, We Stand by AIB Knockout!
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How I wish it too! Thanks for sharing this precious, precious memory
@iFaridoon
"I hate Gandhi (
@Memewala
) for that, I admire him, we are friends. But I wanted to be in that film...":
#SushantSinghRajput
on
#Tummbad
#TalkingFilms
#BollywoodHungama
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The tool with a sharp pivot used to draw precise circles is called a compass. The magnetic device used for direction, orientation and navigation is also called a compass.
Having a way with words is like the former, having a way with concepts is like the latter.
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Kunal critiques and corrects our political and cultural discourse, because that’s immensely essential for the wellbeing of a society, and just as importantly Kunal is devoted to incessant self correction - he is as introspective as he is outspoken. Tune in for our conversation.
This is one of the best content piece we've produced, we took two months to create this & hence we've full faith that no one will watch it...
Featuring
@Memewala
Creative director
@neonirvaan
-
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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First time ever! A film goes open source! 34 hrs of SOT footage, free to download, share and edit non-commercially!
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The greatest human ability is foresight. The engine of this ability is hindsight.
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Super thrilled to announce that
@aimthemovie
has been acquired by
@vicedocs
for a global television and digital release!
@MemesysLab
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When you work, you pay with a piece of your life. Know the opportunity cost of your time. Don’t pitch it too high though, else you’ll never afford to employ yourself.
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Money is the first computer invented by our species. It’s a cloud based storage and data processing system, full of bugs.
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Many young people, inspired by my path, consider skipping college for a self-curated education. I don't advocate dropping out. My college simply didn't meet my intellectual needs. Online education was just emerging. I had to put in a lot of legwork in creating my learning journey
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न यः संपृच्छे न पुनर्हवीतवे न संवादाय रमते ।
तस्मान्नो अद्य समृतेरुरुष्यतं बाहुभ्यां न उरुष्यतम् ॥
ऋग्वेदः मण्डलं - ८.
He who has no pleasure in questioning, nor in debate, nor in dialogue,
Defend us to-day from him, his encounter, and from his arms.
Rigveda: Mandala - 8.
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Ethics are the blueprint for the future we seek to build. Once we can envision the kind of world we want to live in, we can reverse engineer the values that will take us there - that is our ethical framework.
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Here's a conversation I recorded between Irrfan and entrepreneurs about death, spirituality, and responsibility. This is my tribute to the great actor as I remember him - a vast, compassionate, rational, and graceful seeker of truth. Premieres 10 AM at
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What if we were as concerned with what we put into our minds as we are becoming with what we put into our bodies? What if there was inalienable evidence that culture is as important as food - would we scorn at junk culture?
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In 1995, astronomer Bob Williams decided to point the Hubble Space Telescope at a patch of the sky filled with absolutely nothing significant. The telescope stared into nothingness for about a 100 hours - at a huge economic and personal risk...
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Great artists are sieves through which the zeitgeist sifts it’s dreams, hopes, joys and anxieties. Irrfan Khan was one of the greatest artists I had the privilege to know. He has imprinted upon each one of us parts of his self that we shall carry and pass on.
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@thatindicmonk
@vinod_sharma
@smyltr
What makes you think I don’t love my culture? Let me say it unambiguously. I have incessant admiration for my culture and for the place I come from. What’s making you so angry? I truly don’t understand.
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Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up does exactly what caricature, farce, satire, slapstick are meant to do - scream a warning when all subtlety has failed; punch up at those who amplify favourable opinion at the cost of uncomfortable fact.
@GhostPanther
@dontlookupfilm
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If free will is an illusion, then consciousness is also an illusion. So are stock markets, altruism and traffic. The ancients didn’t have agent based modelling tools like we do, so they labelled emergent phenomena as “Maya”.
#ChaosDynamics
#Emergence
#DecisionSystems
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This little playfulness of art and Al is dedicated to one of the most interesting minds I had the joy of knowing. You'd know who I am talking about when you reach the last frame.
#AI
#Emergence
#Pandemic
#Cinema
#FutureofHumanity
#SciFi
#SSR
#MidJourney
#midjourneyai
#Alart
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The guiding principle of gambling mechanics is to make a one in a million probability look like a 50 percent chance and make a completely randomised chance based event look like an outcome of dexterity, timing, personality and “destiny”.
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Life emerges from the continuum of chaos and order, transience and permanence. Paradoxes are an invitation for synthesis.
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Your right to swing your arm leaves off where someone else’s right not to have their nose struck begins.
Most negotiations of life are around real or alleged borders between arms and noses.
That’s why you need science. To determine with certainty.
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"I don’t want the youth of this country to be brought up in a nursery." Lala Lajpat Rai up against censorship in cinema about 100 years ago.
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Not all our art and inventions are going to change the world, for better or for worse. Most of them will become digital noise or evaporate from memory.
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Had recorded conversations with Irrfan and friends for an essay film I was making. He had such profound insights. He spoke with a sense of wonder and reason. He thought, he examined, he created. And with his work, he has transcended.
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Can't wait to show you the film, Sonam! It's a new dialogue on democracy and I'd love to hear your take on it.
A gripping thriller about a man who took an unthinkable route into politics! Catch 'The Insignificant Man' in theatres now! Can't wait to watch this!
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Our greatest gift is foresight. The fuel of foresight is hindsight.
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The big questions of the self and the universe don’t need the speculative romance of philosophy. Science has these answers now. The purpose of philosophy is to simulate potential human futures and propose social and moral contracts that will get us there.
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“What was your strategy during the aandolan?” A peer had asked him. “We sat by the river,” he had said, smiling, “and sang.”
Had the privilege of sitting by a river and absorb his insights two decades ago.
Noted environmentalist and Chipko movement leader Sunderlal Bahuguna dies of coronavirus at AIIMS in Rishikesh
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An Insignificant Man is now out on
@VICE
YouTube
@khushbooranka
@shukla_vinay
@aimthemovie
@MemesysLab
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We are in a constant state of dialogue
with the environment, but for a dialogue to work, both parties need to understand each other’s languages. Our sciences have come a long way in learning the cadence of the atom and the alphabets of the genome.
How well do you speak Planet?
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India's first narrative VR to play at the Toronto Intl. Film Fest!
@TIFF_NET
#VirtualReality
cinema by
@MemesysLab
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As
#DelhiVotes
again, time to reflect on the changing narrative of Indian politics. A scene from our upcoming film
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A story is a record of data points and their correlations. A story is also an engine to simulate possible futures. The ability to tell stories took brute force out of natural selection.
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Money is a metaphor - it is an approximation of the value of energy spent and saved, but we treat it as if it were a precise representation.
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“We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.” E. O. Wilson.
The genetic software that evolved in the scarcity of Stone Age continues to inform our behaviour in the abundance of Network Age.
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Pain is a smoke alarm with sprinklers that saves a house from catching fire at the earliest signs of a fire. Sometimes it is misinformed and ends up damaging the house. Autoimmune, allergies, depression, anxiety are often caused by misinformed smoke alarms in our bodies.
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Is information the fundamental substance of the universe?
#Cybernetics
#Complexity
#Cognition
#Consciousness
#Pa
ñcastikayasara
#Dravya
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Really want young people to lead this conversation!
Finally someone’s put me in a show which kids can watch 🤷🏻♂️
Thank you
@NeilPage
@_PoojaShetty
@Memewala
😂
#OkComputer
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Simulation systems (mathematical models, philosophical thought experiments) that don’t have real world applications are like SPACs - shells with all the paperwork in place till something operational is ready to merge into them.
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Can knowledge be passed on without taxonomy - assigning, naming and organising observed phenomena? Much has been speculated about the limitations of language in metaphysics. What’s the limit of wordless, code-less, map-less comprehension?
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What’s it like to be on board a spaceship? To hurtle through space at 60,000 miles per hour?
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A lot of people have been sharing this story with me. Try as I may, reality will always be more interesting than my imagination. :)
#ShipofTheseus
@AidaElkashef
#AliaKamal
#SeeingWithoutLight
ICYMI: Israa Ismail, 22, uses her hearing and touching senses to capture portraits. She hopes to pursue a career in journalism
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I declared that I would make a seismograph for my school science fair. I was 12. There were three sources of this confidence - some success with making a more basic suspended soda bottle variety version, possessing a second-hand DIY book...
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I'm not directing the film starring
@KajolAtUN
- I've written it, based on a play I wrote+directed, inspired, in part, by my mother's life.
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The money metaphor has been distended, stretched, mutated and hacked by its high priests for short term resource gains leading to long term bugs in the simulation, further amplifying the disparity between haves and have-nots in humans.
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Coming soon, friends. “Bhavishya mein aapka swagat hai.” Watch this space for updates on my collaboration with the brilliant debutant duo
@pooja_and_sons
and
@NeilPage
#OKC
#FutureisNow
#Ajeeb
#HotStar
#DisneyPlus
#Memesys
@radhika_apte
@MrVijayVarma
@bindasbhidu
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Excited about this conversation with my friend, thought peer and entrepreneur
@kunalb11
- do join us!
#biologyofmoney
#biologyofstory
#evolution
#economics
#behaviour
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Risk is a responsibility. There's a fine balance somewhere between risk and comfort, between cognisance and application, between rigour and acceptance, between justice and empathy.
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Great to meet you,
@satyanadella
, I can't wait for HoloLens & convince my friend Zoya Akhtar about its awesomeness!
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@kunalb11
Entertainment is a consequence of supernormal stimuli that trigger amplified responses. Stories are naturally selected pedagogy. We are designed to respond to stories of conflict and courtship as these have the highest sustenance consequences.
Watch-
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“Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Elizabeth again: The whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there’s a tiny thing on the edge of the rudder called a trim tab. It’s a miniature rudder…
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If I had to distill decades of life experiences, learning and epiphanies into 6 minutes, this video is it.
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Everytime I visit a museum, I am amazed at how deeply have people invested in memetic trends and narrative fantasies of their times, building monuments around them and fighting wars over them.
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Shasn is available exclusively and only on
@kickstarter
. It will not be available anywhere else till next year. We made this to blow your minds. So please let us!
@shasnthegame
@zainmemon_
#politicalstrategy
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A bibliography I’d put together 7 years ago - still relevant. Will update this with my best of the decade soon.
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Poetry, cinema, literature, philosophy- Art is the crucible of such synthesis.
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That said, if you find yourself in a college with outdated syllabi, poor infrastructure, unchallenging intellect, lack of good teachers, or brilliant peers, don't hesitate to seek out rigorous alternatives. Access to knowledge is a fundamental right.
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Mammootty's performance in Kaathal is a historic milestone, a defining act of this decade. His expansive rendition of the character distills the struggles and beauty of an entire era. What a privilege to see one of the greatest living artists of cinema at work.
@mammukka
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I regret not making the film in time. I think I should have at least published it as a book. Some day, I will make the time to put my screenplay into prose form, I hope. In the meantime, sharing some images I generated using Al for the story.
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Chaotic complex systems can be observed to emerge from simple agents and their cumulative interactions. Eg. Just apply 3 rules of flight to individual “bird” agents and observe murmuration emerge. Explore complexity simulations
@netlogo
#FreeWillExistsButNotAlways
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My exposure to text to image Al
happened a decade ago on a visit to MIT Media Lab. Computer vision is going to inform our futures in ways I can only vaguely speculate, limited by the ceiling of my imagination. Here's a glimpse, for starters.
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A story about the changing fabric of our democracy!
http://t.co/pw55PL6JZ1
RT!!
#DelhiDecides
http://t.co/HNzLjUirTj
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Finally coming to Mumbai, Delhi and Pune on the 3rd. Do not miss it! Best film of the year!
@ThithiTheFilm
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Our second VR documentary shoot, bringing an important story from Chhatisgarh.
#VirtualReality
#EmpathyMachine
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It was such a joy to chat with you,
@iFaridoon
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We have found wise hacks to stop our body’s smoke alarms post-trigger and preemptively: painkillers and anaesthesia. What should we do with smoke alarms like heartbreak, envy and anger?
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Ship of Theseus is now on Netflix! Please share the news with everyone who might want to watch the film!
http://t.co/dAsCpcXUjd
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I strive to be of utility. Thank you for discovering it in me.
i admire
@Memewala
’s sense of articulation, extensively. how dare he translate his thoughts into words w such high precision? it’s unfair for the rest of humanity.
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The two paths aren't mutually exclusive. You can pursue a PhD along with multi-disciplinary learning. With AI doing much of our legwork, it's critical to seek education that fosters critical thinking, discernment, empathy, imagination, and a systems view of complexity.
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I see critics and peers complain about the smugness of the clown who laughs at the emperor’s (lack of) clothes. Well, peer reviewed papers aren’t smug. This is an arrow that points us in that direction - with a pop song that goes, “Listen to the goddamn qualified scientists!”
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Our film
@aimthemovie
will have its world premiere at
@TIFF_NET
this September! Thank you,
@cameron_tiff
!
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